Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

The role involves designing and building AI-native systems for revenue teams at Upside, including developing applications, partnering with teams, managing the entire stack, and improving system reliability and performance.

The Staff Data Engineer will lead design and implementation of analytics platforms and data products, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and drive best practices at Upside.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll maintain the infrastructure for systems, ensure efficiency, automate processes, monitor databases, and participate in architecture discussions.

Design and scale backend services for Klover's payment systems. Build microservices, implement APIs, and ensure data integrity while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The Staff Supplier Quality Engineer manages supplier quality performance, leads CAPA reviews, conducts audits, analyzes KPIs, and mentors junior engineers.

Designs, develops, and maintains software applications, acts as a technical leader, mentors team members, manages source code, and works on complex Java services.

Responsible for the development, testing, and deployment of complex solutions, collaborating with multiple teams and overseeing technical strategies and architecture. Lead engineering efforts, mentor engineers, and improve engineering standards.

Own and evolve Babylist's AWS infrastructure and developer platform using Terraform and Kubernetes. Improve CI/CD reliability, support engineers across environments, define monitoring and alerting standards, lead incident response and postmortems, and shape platform architecture to scale for millions of users.

Design, develop, and deploy enterprise APIs and integrations using MuleSoft and Azure integration services. Build event-driven, cloud-native integrations, implement API security and observability, support L2/L3 production issues, and collaborate with onshore/offshore teams. Promote CI/CD and modern integration best practices and leverage AI/LLM-enabled APIs to accelerate development.

Deliver a great consumer experience through software development and maintenance of eCommerce core platform, leading teams and providing technical guidance.

Seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Engineer to enhance developer experience, manage infrastructure, and ensure security compliance in a healthcare tech startup.

Develop and manage high-performance back-end systems, design secure APIs, optimize performance in cloud environments, conduct testing, and manage ML model lifecycles.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead major projects, drive architectural innovation, interface with customers for solutions, and mentor engineers. Experience in software engineering and a strong grasp of AI, cloud scale, and evolving technologies is essential.

As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will design AI products on Edge devices, optimize ML model performance, and work with large-scale datasets, collaborating across teams to deliver impactful solutions.

The Staff Software Engineer will enhance video capabilities, support live streaming and storage infrastructure, and collaborate on platform development. Responsibilities include coding, mentoring, and ensuring platform reliability for millions of users.

Design, build, deploy, and operate a high-concurrency, resilient configuration and publishing platform. Lead cross-team projects, set technical direction, improve engineering productivity, optimize performance, and maintain end-to-end ownership of distributed systems at scale.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and scale backend systems for financial products, implement APIs, and maintain high code quality in a collaborative environment.

Architect and build microservices using Node.js and Rust, work with cross-functional teams to deliver quality customer-focused features, and improve agile processes.

Lead the development of an AI-powered platform for senior mental health, building systems for patient experience, and mentoring the engineering team.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and implement solutions for the Websites product, collaborate across teams, and innovate on a scalable web platform for restaurants.

The Principal Engineer will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, write production-ready code, and design scalable systems to support growth.

Lead product security across the SDLC: threat modeling, secure architecture, vulnerability management, security testing and remediation, CI/CD/DevSecOps controls, AI security integration, bug bounty triage, developer training, and cross-functional security consulting to scale secure-by-design practices.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Become an expert in the Hivemind autonomy stack, create and deliver hands-on technical training, develop training materials and documentation, support customer debugging, and collaborate with product and engineering to improve adoption and training practices. Role includes ~30% travel for in-person customer engagements.

Lead design and development of primary and secondary structural components for next-generation UAVs, owning the full lifecycle from concept to production. Perform and guide linear/nonlinear FEA, stress and fatigue analysis, material selection (composites, aluminum), and structural validation testing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams for integration, manufacturability, and certification, mentor junior engineers, and improve design and configuration management processes.